After my freshman year, I left university to start Want Me Get Me, a hotel booking startup acquired by Surface Magazine, and then founded the luxury travel venture Skylark, which is backed by the largest travel company in the world.

I’ve judged the Global Entrepreneurship Summit and National Geographic World Legacy Awards, spoken at the world’s largest Entrepreneur Week summit, served on a United Nations host committee and now an alumnus and guest professor at the University of Texas at Austin (hook ‘em!).

I’ve been honored as a 35 Under 35 and named a “disruptor shaping the next generation” by Travel+Leisure. My work has been featured by Inc., FastCompany, The New York Times, Bloomberg and others.